Purdue Expert: Work-Life Balance

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Kate Zipay is a professor of organizational behavior and human resources in the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business at Purdue University. In this video, she explains how life outside of work impacts employees and organizations. Zipay says that people live messy, interesting and complicated lives, and that most of these life experiences happen outside of work. When employees go to work, they bring both the enriching and conflicting aspects of their lives with them. As an organizational scholar, Zipay and others in her field look at what is happening outside of work and how employees and leaders can use these experiences to foster healthy and successful organizations. She says leaders need to recognize that employees are people and that part of their job is to simply get out of the way. This can take the form of more employee free time or implementing boundaries when employees are off the clock. Workers that are allowed to grow and be themselves outside of work will be more creative, cooperative, and productive when they return to work.

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